Greg Michaelson

This well-respected text offers an accessible introduction to functional programming concepts and techniques for students of mathematics and computer science. The treatment is as nontechnical as possible, assuming no prior knowledge of mathematics or functional programming. Numerous exercises appear throughout the text, and all problems feature complete solutions. 1989 edition.

An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus

Phil Trinder

Clemens Grelck

Frank Huch

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Implementation and Applications of Functional Languages, IFL 2004, held in Lübeck, Germany in September 2004. The 13 revised full papers presented went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from an initial total of 40 workshop presentations. The papers address current issues on functional and function-based languages, ranging from theoretical and methodological topics to implementation issues and applications in various contexts.

16th International Workshop, IFL 2004, Lübeck, Germany, September 8-10, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

The 16th International Workshop on Implementation and Application of Fu- tional Languages (IFL 2004) was held in Lub ̈ eck, Germany, September 8–10, 2004. It was jointly organized by the Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of the University of Kiel and the Institute of Software Technology and Programming Languages of the University of Lub ̈ eck. IFL 2004 was the sixteenth event in the annual series of IFL workshops. The aim of the workshop series is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based progr- ming languages. It provides an open forum for researchers who wish to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, preliminary results, etc., related primarily, but not exclusively, to the implementation and application of functional languages. Topics of interest cover a wide range from theoretical - pects over language design and implementation towards applications and tool support. Previous IFL workshops were held in the United Kingdom (Southampton, Norwich, London, St Andrews, and Edinburgh), in the Netherlands (Nijmegen and Lochem), in Germany (Aachen and Bonn), in Sweden (B? astad and Sto- holm), and in Spain (Madrid). In 2005, the 17th International Workshop on - plementation and Application of Functional Languages will be held in Dublin, Ireland.

Ricardo Pena

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on the Implementation of Functional Languages, IFL 2003, held in Edinburgh, UK in September 2003. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision from 32 workshop presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on language constructs and programming, static analysis and types, parallelism, and generic programming.

15th International Workshop, IFL 2003, Edinburgh, UK, September 8-11, 2003. Revised Papers

Implementation of Functional Languages

Kevin Hammond

Programming is hard. Building a large program is like constructing a steam locomotive through a hole the size of a postage stamp. An artefact that is the fruit of hundreds of person-years is only ever seen by anyone through a lOO-line window. In some ways it is astonishing that such large systems work at all. But parallel programming is much, much harder. There are so many more things to go wrong. Debugging is a nightmare. A bug that shows up on one run may never happen when you are looking for it - but unfailingly returns as soon as your attention moves elsewhere. A large fraction of the program's code can be made up of marshalling and coordination algorithms. The core application can easily be obscured by a maze of plumbing. Functional programming is a radical, elegant, high-level attack on the programming problem. Radical, because it dramatically eschews side-effects; elegant, because of its close connection with mathematics; high-level, be cause you can say a lot in one line. But functional programming is definitely not (yet) mainstream. That's the trouble with radical approaches: it's hard for them to break through and become mainstream. But that doesn't make functional programming any less fun, and it has turned out to be a won derful laboratory for rich type systems, automatic garbage collection, object models, and other stuff that has made the jump into the mainstream.

Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming

Hans-Wolfgang Loidl

This collection of 17 papers drawn from an August 1999 workshop held in Scotland presents advances in parallel functional programming, type systems, architectures and implementation, language applications, and theory. Topics include BSP-based cost analysis of skeletal programs, how to combine the benefits of strict and soft typing, interfacing Java with Haskell, a functional design framework for genetic algorithms, and list homomorphisms with accumulation and indexing. No index. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

Trends in Functional Programming

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